Seasonal Pulses of Marburg Virus Circulation in Juvenile Rousettus aegyptiacus Bats Coincide with Periods of Increased Risk of Human Infection

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Amman, Brian R ^a   Carroll, Serena A ^a   Reed, Zachary D ^a   Sealy, Tara K ^a   Balinandi, Stephen ^a   Swanepoel, Robert ^b,g   Kemp, Alan ^b   Erickson, Bobbie Rae ^a   Comer, James A ^a   Campbell, Shelley ^a   Cannon, Deborah L ^a   Khristova, Marina L ^a   Atimnedi, Patrick ^c   Paddock, Christopher D ^a   Kent Crockett, Rebekah J ^d   Flietstra, Timothy D ^a   Warfield, Kelly L ^e   Unfer, Robert ^e   Katongole Mbidde, Edward ^f   Downing, Robert ^a   Tappero, Jordan W ^a   Zaki, Sherif R ^a   Rollin, Pierre E ^a   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^a,h   Nichol, Stuart T ^a   Towner, Jonathan S ^a   more..

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^c UGANDA WILDLIFE AUTHORITY   (Uganda)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e Integrated BioTherapeutics   (United States)

^f UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^h University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; CAVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILOVIRUS INFECTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVER; MALE; MARBURG VIRUS; MARBURG VIRUS INFECTION; MINER; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK REDUCTION; ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPLEEN; UGANDA; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAVES; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARBURG VIRUS DISEASE; MARBURGVIRUS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, VIRAL; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; UGANDA; VIRAL REGULATORY AND ACCESSORY PROTEINS;

FILOVIRIDAE; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS;

EID: 84868132926     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002877     Document Type: Article

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